| 释义 |
Definition of dragoon in English: dragoonnoun drəˈɡuːndrəˈɡun 1A member of any of several cavalry regiments in the British army. Example sentencesExamples - But Kent was in a dragoon regiment and the half jacket you wear is typical for hussar uniforms.
- In the original battle on December 5 1642 Royalist Lord Henry Wilmot and Lord Digby led a troop of dragoons in a daring attack on the town.
- Without stopping, as soon as the sun rose Banastre Tarleton ordered his unrested Legion and dragoons to charge into the American militia in the center.
- Then the dragoons came under fire from a German battalion mounted on bicycles.
- Initially the male population was required to supply labor services for defensive works at the isthmus of Corinth while inhabitants of the villages were also required to supply lodging and provisions for the dragoons.
- From the calibre of those we recover we can tell whether they were fired by musketeers, cavalry, dragoons or possibly, from the surface damage on them, as ‘case-shot’ from artillery pieces.
- One of these dragoons is John Loveday, the trumpet-major, the gentle, unassuming son of the miller.
- In 1705 this number was readjusted to four dragoons.
- In fact, the lancers were a minority of those who charged: only one regiment of lancers, but two each of hussars and light dragoons.
- Jefferson had himself been hunted like an animal by British dragoons.
- The commander of the dragoons was court-martialled, and shot himself.
- Cavalry was essential to pursue the hard-riding Indians - at first, a full regiment of dragoons was drummed to the colors, and then a second regiment.
- We have recently added a troop of dragoons to the regiment.
- It is possible that the red uniforms of several British dragoons may have been glimpsed on Novikov's estate.
- While a system of barracks relieved the villagers of having to lodge the dragoons in their houses, the obligation to transport provisions using their own animals at times when they were needed in the fields was burdensome.
- Fired on by guns from both flanks and to the front, he and a few dragoons reached the Russian line before retreating.
- Born in Hereford, the third of seven children of Peter Garrick and Arabella Clough, he returned with his family to Lichfield where his father was stationed with the dragoons, and where he received his early education.
- Like other forms of body armour, metal helmets were generally abandoned in Latin Europe around 1660, but were revived around 1810 for units of heavy cavalry and dragoons, and are still worn by such units on formal occasions.
- It is a painting I often have in mind when I write about my dragoons.
- She affects Victorian-melodrama attitudes, tromps about like a regiment of dragoons, utters horror-film laughs, and spits out a goodly number of her lines.
Synonyms cavalryman, mounted soldier, horse soldier, cavalier, knight, chevalier carabineer, hussar, lancer, cuirassier, sabreur - 1.1historical A mounted infantryman armed with a carbine.
Example sentencesExamples - The Patriot delivers in the form of Colonel William Tavington of the green dragoons.
- Nine uniformed dragoons are standing around with the figure that is probably the architect, in frock coat and top hat concentrating on a drawing board.
- This small force consisted of a troop of dragoons in front, an advance guard of light infantry, a few artillery batteries, and several infantry regiments in the rear.
- In an unwary moment, French dragoons come so very narrowly to causing Wellesley great harm, prevented only by the heroic efforts of Sergeant Richard Sharpe.
- Cavalry forces evolved into four categories throughout the ages: the cuirassier or heavy cavalryman, the lancer, the dragoon or mounted infantryman, and the light cavalry.
verbdrəˈɡuːndrəˈɡun [with object]Coerce (someone) into doing something. she had been dragooned into helping with the housework Example sentencesExamples - What they need help with is mostly serving meals and answering phones - they aren't dragooning people into serving on bucket brigades.
- Along with the awful band at the next wedding or Bar Mitzvah you're dragooned into.
- The whips who failed miserably to dragoon the rebels through the ‘No’ lobby on Wednesday wearily admit that a mass revolt by more than a third of backbenchers cannot be passed off as a mere blip.
- The world of fantasy did fill her childhood - she wrote books and plays and dragooned her younger brother Roger into playing assorted parts.
- Before setting off to Dancewear in Glasgow to buy my first set of pumps, however, I was dragooned by the man to take part in a hateful five-a-side.
- However, it is almost certain he and other top officials will spend the summer attempting to dragoon local officials and businessmen into slowing development.
- When members of the general public - for lack of a more inclusive term, let's call them ‘voters’ - are dragooned into election politics, with or without their consent, the result is usually as unpredictable as it is unedifying.
- He had masterminded the enterprise, dragooning his employees to participate in the crime, he said.
- After sitting through the tedious mutualisation vote, he was dragooned by the bossy PR woman from during the question time session for group managing director.
- What's more, he and his crew appear to have dragooned the press into service as disseminators of propaganda and apologists for the failures of administration policy that the government hasn't been able to sidestep.
- When we were dragooned by the southern hemisphere into the professional era, nobody thought too much about the longer-term consequences.
- Once upon a time my Sunday school teacher dragooned me into a little kiddie choir that performed ‘Away in A Manger’ during the Christmas cantata.
- A subject race, dragooned by force for centuries, has shaken off the last of its shackles.
- So Saturday last weekend I was dragooned into being a judge at a local school's speech contest.
- It doesn't try to load each episode with winky references for the adult who's been dragooned into watching it; instead, it just tells short clever stories anyone can enjoy.
- Yes, and dragooning young people into the rebel army, but that was a matter which had been argued before the Tribunal.
- As she traced the zipper outline of the case, she explained to Brian, ‘There's a party tonight, and I was dragooned into going.’
- If I were dragooned tomorrow into teaching Western civ, I would raise my hand for the second semester, from Torquemada to Hitler.
- So at the risk of being dragooned into the ranks of the lynch mob, I'll add that the simplest reason he inspires so much derision is that he dishes it out himself in spades with a supremely self satisfied and moralistic air.
- The politically innocent Dave is dragooned into impersonating the real president, in order to hide the truth from the public.
Synonyms coerce, pressure, pressurize, bring pressure to bear on, use pressure on, put pressure on, constrain, lean on, press, push force, compel, impel, oblige, put under an obligation, squeeze, hound, harass, nag, harry, badger, goad, drive, prod, pester, browbeat, brainwash, bludgeon, bully, threaten, tyrannize, prevail on, work on, act on, influence, intimidate, twist someone's arm, strong-arm North American blackjack informal bulldoze, railroad, put the screws/squeeze on British informal bounce North American informal hustle, fast-talk
Origin Early 17th century (denoting a kind of carbine or musket, thought of as breathing fire): from French dragon 'dragon'. Rhymes afternoon, attune, autoimmune, baboon, balloon, bassoon, bestrewn, boon, Boone, bridoon, buffoon, Cameroon, Cancún, cardoon, cartoon, Changchun, cocoon, commune, croon, doubloon, dune, festoon, galloon, goon, harpoon, hoon, immune, importune, impugn, Irgun, jejune, June, Kowloon, lagoon, lampoon, loon, macaroon, maroon, monsoon, moon, Muldoon, noon, oppugn, picayune, platoon, poltroon, pontoon, poon, prune, puccoon, raccoon, Rangoon, ratoon, rigadoon, rune, saloon, Saskatoon, Sassoon, Scone, soon, spittoon, spoon, swoon, Troon, tune, tycoon, typhoon, Walloon Definition of dragoon in US English: dragoonnoundrəˈɡundrəˈɡo͞on 1A member of any of several cavalry regiments in the British army. Example sentencesExamples - But Kent was in a dragoon regiment and the half jacket you wear is typical for hussar uniforms.
- One of these dragoons is John Loveday, the trumpet-major, the gentle, unassuming son of the miller.
- Like other forms of body armour, metal helmets were generally abandoned in Latin Europe around 1660, but were revived around 1810 for units of heavy cavalry and dragoons, and are still worn by such units on formal occasions.
- Then the dragoons came under fire from a German battalion mounted on bicycles.
- Born in Hereford, the third of seven children of Peter Garrick and Arabella Clough, he returned with his family to Lichfield where his father was stationed with the dragoons, and where he received his early education.
- In 1705 this number was readjusted to four dragoons.
- We have recently added a troop of dragoons to the regiment.
- From the calibre of those we recover we can tell whether they were fired by musketeers, cavalry, dragoons or possibly, from the surface damage on them, as ‘case-shot’ from artillery pieces.
- The commander of the dragoons was court-martialled, and shot himself.
- Without stopping, as soon as the sun rose Banastre Tarleton ordered his unrested Legion and dragoons to charge into the American militia in the center.
- In the original battle on December 5 1642 Royalist Lord Henry Wilmot and Lord Digby led a troop of dragoons in a daring attack on the town.
- Initially the male population was required to supply labor services for defensive works at the isthmus of Corinth while inhabitants of the villages were also required to supply lodging and provisions for the dragoons.
- In fact, the lancers were a minority of those who charged: only one regiment of lancers, but two each of hussars and light dragoons.
- She affects Victorian-melodrama attitudes, tromps about like a regiment of dragoons, utters horror-film laughs, and spits out a goodly number of her lines.
- Jefferson had himself been hunted like an animal by British dragoons.
- It is possible that the red uniforms of several British dragoons may have been glimpsed on Novikov's estate.
- While a system of barracks relieved the villagers of having to lodge the dragoons in their houses, the obligation to transport provisions using their own animals at times when they were needed in the fields was burdensome.
- Cavalry was essential to pursue the hard-riding Indians - at first, a full regiment of dragoons was drummed to the colors, and then a second regiment.
- Fired on by guns from both flanks and to the front, he and a few dragoons reached the Russian line before retreating.
- It is a painting I often have in mind when I write about my dragoons.
Synonyms cavalryman, mounted soldier, horse soldier, cavalier, knight, chevalier - 1.1historical A mounted infantryman armed with a short rifle or musket.
Example sentencesExamples - This small force consisted of a troop of dragoons in front, an advance guard of light infantry, a few artillery batteries, and several infantry regiments in the rear.
- Nine uniformed dragoons are standing around with the figure that is probably the architect, in frock coat and top hat concentrating on a drawing board.
- The Patriot delivers in the form of Colonel William Tavington of the green dragoons.
- Cavalry forces evolved into four categories throughout the ages: the cuirassier or heavy cavalryman, the lancer, the dragoon or mounted infantryman, and the light cavalry.
- In an unwary moment, French dragoons come so very narrowly to causing Wellesley great harm, prevented only by the heroic efforts of Sergeant Richard Sharpe.
verbdrəˈɡundrəˈɡo͞on [with object]Coerce (someone) into doing something. she had been dragooned into helping with the housework Example sentencesExamples - The politically innocent Dave is dragooned into impersonating the real president, in order to hide the truth from the public.
- He had masterminded the enterprise, dragooning his employees to participate in the crime, he said.
- If I were dragooned tomorrow into teaching Western civ, I would raise my hand for the second semester, from Torquemada to Hitler.
- After sitting through the tedious mutualisation vote, he was dragooned by the bossy PR woman from during the question time session for group managing director.
- It doesn't try to load each episode with winky references for the adult who's been dragooned into watching it; instead, it just tells short clever stories anyone can enjoy.
- So at the risk of being dragooned into the ranks of the lynch mob, I'll add that the simplest reason he inspires so much derision is that he dishes it out himself in spades with a supremely self satisfied and moralistic air.
- Before setting off to Dancewear in Glasgow to buy my first set of pumps, however, I was dragooned by the man to take part in a hateful five-a-side.
- As she traced the zipper outline of the case, she explained to Brian, ‘There's a party tonight, and I was dragooned into going.’
- What's more, he and his crew appear to have dragooned the press into service as disseminators of propaganda and apologists for the failures of administration policy that the government hasn't been able to sidestep.
- Along with the awful band at the next wedding or Bar Mitzvah you're dragooned into.
- What they need help with is mostly serving meals and answering phones - they aren't dragooning people into serving on bucket brigades.
- Yes, and dragooning young people into the rebel army, but that was a matter which had been argued before the Tribunal.
- When we were dragooned by the southern hemisphere into the professional era, nobody thought too much about the longer-term consequences.
- The whips who failed miserably to dragoon the rebels through the ‘No’ lobby on Wednesday wearily admit that a mass revolt by more than a third of backbenchers cannot be passed off as a mere blip.
- However, it is almost certain he and other top officials will spend the summer attempting to dragoon local officials and businessmen into slowing development.
- Once upon a time my Sunday school teacher dragooned me into a little kiddie choir that performed ‘Away in A Manger’ during the Christmas cantata.
- A subject race, dragooned by force for centuries, has shaken off the last of its shackles.
- So Saturday last weekend I was dragooned into being a judge at a local school's speech contest.
- When members of the general public - for lack of a more inclusive term, let's call them ‘voters’ - are dragooned into election politics, with or without their consent, the result is usually as unpredictable as it is unedifying.
- The world of fantasy did fill her childhood - she wrote books and plays and dragooned her younger brother Roger into playing assorted parts.
Synonyms coerce, pressure, pressurize, bring pressure to bear on, use pressure on, put pressure on, constrain, lean on, press, push
Origin Early 17th century (denoting a kind of carbine or musket, thought of as breathing fire): from French dragon ‘dragon’. |